Thomas Nast's Original "Fort
Sumter" Print

This is a Thomas Nast drawing done within
days of the death of Abraham Lincoln and the end of the Civil War. The
illustration is an original leaf from an 1865 Harper's Weekly. It
shows two different views of Fort Sumter. On the top, we see Fort
Sumter on the Eve of War. There is a bolt of lightning hitting the
flag pole. The lighting bolt appears to be coming from the hand of the
Angel of Death. It is a dark and ominous picture. The lower
image is captioned, "The Dawn of Peace" and shows Fort Sumter at the close
of the Civil War. In this image we see an angel of peace looking down
on the fort from the clouds. In the left inset image we see the flag being
lowered over Sumter as the war began, and Sumter was given up, and on the
right inset image we see the US Union Flag once again raised over Fort
Sumter with the end of the Civil War.

We created this
Thomas Nast Gallery to digitally preserve Nast's Civil War work for
posterity. We are now making the original, 140 year old leafs
available for a price of $250 each. The proceeds from the sale of the
material will enable us to continue to expand the material featured on our
site. Please contact paul@sonofthesouth.net
if you are interested in acquiring one of these original leafs.